One of the goals of Penn is to have an impact in the greater Philadelphia area and GovLabPHL and PBSI (the Philadelphia Behavioral Solutions Initiative) are clear ways of partnering interested and engaged academics with interested and engaged city officials.

We’d like to thank Dan Ariely for his exciting talk on The (Honest) Truth about Dishonesty at the 2018 Goldstone Forum. Speaking to a packed auditorium in the Penn Museum, Professor Ariely focused on the tension between our desire to conceive of ourselves as honest, the impulse to benefit from cheating or dishonesty, and the role rationalization and conflicts of interest play in mediating the two.

I would like to thank Paul Hurley (Claremont McKenna College), Steve Simon (Richmond University), Colin Bird (University of Virginia), and Jonny Anomaly (University of Arizona) for joining me on a panel session about Topics in PPE Administration, Logistics and Curriculum. The panel addressed issues from recruiting majors and determining which courses should be led by PPE to approaching allied disciplines and strategizing proposals to create new programs to the implications of the difference between an interdisciplinary vs. multidisciplinary understanding of PPE. The session was well attended and will hopefully contribute to the development of PPE programs!